Whistleblower: Digital Realty Trust v. Somers (02/21/2018) (unanimous) [PDF].A whistleblower who reports wrongdoing to management – but not to the SEC – does not get protection from the Dodd-Frank Act's anti-retaliation provision.

Payroll tax: Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States (06/21/2018) (5-4) [PDF]. Employee stock options are not taxable “compensation” under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act because they are not “money remuneration.”

Collective bargaining: CNH Industrial v. Reese (02/20/2018) (per curiam) [PDF]. Courts must use "ordinary principles of contract law" to interpret collective bargaining agreements. You can't use a "Yard-Man inference" to resolve an ambiguity, and you can't use a Yard-Man inference to create an ambiguity.

Free speech vs. LGBT discrimination: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civ Rts Commn (06/04/2018) (7-2) [PDF].Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise Clause by not providing a neutral and respectful consideration of a baker's claims that he should not be required to create a cake for a same-sex wedding.

ERISA:Advocate Health Care Network v. Stapleton (06/05/2017) - ERISA's "church plan" exemption applies to a pension plan that is maintained by a church-affiliated organization even though the plan was not established by a church.

Bankruptcy:Czyzewski v. Jevic Holding Corporation (03/22/2017) - Bankruptcy courts may not approve structured dismissals that provide for distributions that do not follow ordinary priority rules without the consent of affected creditors. Therefore, the Court reversed lower court holdings that allowed a Chapter 11 (reorganization) bankruptcy to end with a structured dismissal that totally cut out the claims of employees whose claims normally would be senior to some unsecured creditors to whom distributions were made.

President's appointment power: NLRB v. SW General Inc. (03/21/2017) - The President's appointment of Lafe Solomon as Acting General Counsel of the NLRB violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. He was Acting General Counsel when the President nominated him to serve on a permanent basis but the Senate did not act on the nomination. Once he was nominated, the Federal Vacancies Reform Act prevented him from performing the duties of that office on an acting basis. [Details: NLRB's Acting GC was unlawfully appointed]

Transgender restrooms: Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. (03/06/2017) - Judgment vacated and case remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit for further consideration in light of the guidance document issued by the Department of Education and Department of Justice on February 22, 2017. This case had raised the question of whether the federal government can require a federal fund-receiving local school district to allow a transgender teenager to use restrooms corresponding to the teenager's gender identity. [Details: Transgender bathroom case vacated and remanded]

Indian tribe sovereign immunity:Lewis v. Clarke(04/25/2017 - In a suit brought against a tribal employee in his individual capacity, the employee, not the tribe, is the real party in interest and the tribe’s sovereign immunity is not implicated.

Green v. Brennan - For federal employees, the filing period for a constructive discharge claim begins to run when an employee resigns, not at the time of an employer’s last allegedly discriminatory act giving rise to the resignation. May 23, 2016.

Heffernan v. City of Paterson - The First Amendment bars the government from demoting a public employee based on a supervisor's perception that the employee supports a political candidate. April 26, 2016.

Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo - A class or collective action can be certified where liability and damages will be determined with statistical techniques that presume all class members are identical to the average observed in a sample, and the class contains members who were not injured. March 22, 2016.

Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company - ERISA preempts a Vermont statute that requires health insurers to report payments and other information relating to health care services to a state agency for compilation in an all-inclusive health care database. March 1, 2016.

Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez - An unaccepted Rule 68 offer that would fully satisfy an individual plaintiff's claim does not moot that claim, and also does not moot a class action. January 20, 2016.